New York S 4745: Directs the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the financial effects of making local governments responsible for the upkeep in certain public areas

Status: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 4745

Sponsors: Cordell Cleare

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S04745 Summary:

BILL NOS04745 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07993

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SPONSORCLEARE

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Directs the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the financial effects of making local governments responsible for the upkeep in certain public areas immediately outside of properties owned or leased by public authorities.

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02/12/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4745

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
 ment Operations

 AN ACT requiring the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the
 financial effects of making local governments responsible for upkeep
 in public areas immediately outside of properties owned or leased by
 public authorities; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
 upon expiration thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The director of the authorities budget office shall conduct
 2 a comprehensive study analyzing the financial impact on local govern-
 3 ments being responsible for the upkeep in public areas immediately
 4 outside of properties owned or leased by public authorities, including
 5 but not limited to, sidewalks.
 6 § 2. For the purposes of this act, the director of the authorities
 7 budget office may conduct such study in conjunction with any other
 8 department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
 9 ty, local government or municipality of the state deemed necessary. To
 10 the maximum extent feasible, such director shall be authorized to
 11 request, receive, and utilize such resources and data of any other
 12 department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
 13 ty, local government or municipality of the state as such director may
 14 reasonably request to properly carry their powers and duties pursuant to
 15 this act.
 16 § 3. The director of the authorities budget office shall publish such
 17 report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
 18 speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate committee on labor and
 19 the chair of the assembly committee on labor no later than December 31,
 20 2025.
 21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 22 deemed repealed January 1, 2026.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09378-01-5

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